Chapter 1
SummaryNick Carraway is a narrator of the story. He introduced the characters and setting of the book. Nick is a young man from Minnesota who grew up in the prominent, well to do family. He graduated from New Haven in 1915 and a little later served in the military in Great War. The narrator briefly mentions the hero of the story- Gatsby. He says: “Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament” – it was ea extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul of dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short- winded elations of man.” After the war he returned to the Midwest. The counter- raid enjoyed him so thoroughly that he came back restless. Now the Midwest seemed him like the ragged edge of the universe. That’s why he decided to go east and learn the bond business. He has rented a home on West Egg one of two identical egg-shaped islands located on Long Island Sound, 20 miles from the city. His house is a weather beaten cardboard bungalow renting for eighty dollars per month. He has an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made him bad and cooked the breakfast. His house was an eyesore between two large mansions. The one of his right was a colossal affair by any standard – it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. Nick has learned that the owner of this mansion was Mr. Jay Gatsby. The history of the summer begins when one evening Nick drives out to West Egg to have a dinner with his cousin once removed Daisy. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth- but there was an excitement in her voice that man who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen” She was dressed in a lightweight, white garment that is ripping on the breeze, giving the young woman the image of floating. She appears to be light as a feather. The total contrast of her husband Tom Buchanan, Nick knew him in college. Tom’s family was enormously wealthy. He was a sturdy, straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner, Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. He has the enormous power of the body. It was a body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body. His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. Throughout the evening, Daisy tells to Nick about her plans. When Nick looks in her eyes he saw the true Daisy, for they hold a sadness and absence of desire. Tom tries to interest the others in a book The Rise of the Colored Empires, the book about racist, white-supremacist attitudes that Tom seems to find convincing. The conversation was interrupted by the phone call. Tom leave the room, Daisy follows him. In this time, Miss Baker, tell Nick that Tom’s got some woman in New York. After an artless dinner, the party breaks up. Jordan wants to go to bed because she has a golf tournament the next day. As Nick leaves, Tom and Daisy hint that they would like for him to take a romantic interest in Jordan. When Nick arrives home, he stands outside to take in the view of the...

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